What did you spend your Prize money on? (Fun Question)

hellenjc

In light of FXSTI's fantastic £5000 win ( and a couple of other recent ones.) I thought it would be fun to have a post where people can say what they have spent their prize money on - big and small amounts.

I'll kick off with my story.

I won £5000 :eek: in a "Maxi Monthly Draw" back in the early 90's when competitions were mostly done on postcards...(showing my age now) and I was living in Ireland

We were about to build the 2nd half of our house there ( long story!) so I used £3000 towards the building which meant we had to borrow £3000 less making that bit of the money worth over £4000 because we had to pay interest on £3000 less ( if you get my drift)
I gave 300 to my mum and 300 to my ex's mum, paid a few bills and the rest we used to pay for a FAB 8 day holiday in Cyprus for me, hubby and our 2 children.. :cool:

So how about you? what have you done with your prize money??

dinx1972

My biggest cash win to date (notice the to date because I am planning on winning more:rotfl: ) has been £500 from the Virgin Radio comp back in April and this was used to fence between us and the neighbours (and unruly relative children), so that we can sit out on our decking without being heckled.

Boring but practical.

little-miss-little

The most i've ever won was £25 from Real People. It went straight into the house deposit savings, which is incidentally just going through now!

kerrimouse

I recently won £1000 with That's Life magazine, we are going to Florida in December so it is going towards paying off the holiday.

Biggest win ever was £32,495 with the lottery. We gave money to all family members, went to Florida, paid of debts, paid of a debt for mil. Best thing of all, I was able to start my family as I could take maternity leave and not worry about money for baby items and not having a second wage coming in whilst I took 6 months leave.

hellenjc

:eek: :eek: Well done Kerrimouse..that was some win

bargainhuntergal

Good thread! :j

I bought a digital camera (Panasonic TZ5) with the £250 I won from the Lucozade/Metro daily competition!

eyeballpaul

Paid £18k off a mortgage.
Trip to China. 2007
Trip to Barbados. 2008
Laptop for competitions.
Planning a trip to Maldives later this year.
Possible titanium implants (teeth) 2008/9

hellenjc

:eek: :eek: OMG eyeballpaul that is SOME haul!!

(aside to board moderators:can we ban him from the boards :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: )

EverDecreasingCircles

I won £975 on Real Deal a few months ago and spent it like this:

A fireplace (bought in the Homebase sale) to fill the gaping hole in our living room wall
5 days in sis-in-law's caravan in Norfolk
£150 on a family meal out for DS's 21st birthday
A silver ring for me
Redecorated our bedroom
A little toward a camcorder (I'd been saving to buy one already)

£150 still to spend

Jen x

SkintBrideToBe

Wow, ive never had a cash win so far, but i know that id spend any cash paying off debts

Mullhon2

I'm with SkintBride, I've never won any money, but if it's less than £15K it'll be swallowed by debts! Oh, the idea of being debt free... That would be better than any holiday!